Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 29, 2009

My children, now age and 10, have been big helpers in all my online fundraising campaigns for the Sharing Foundation. And this year, Harry sent some of his birthday loot to the Sharing Foundation , making me proud that he is following my tradition of giving to celebrate a birthday. . Tips To Encourage Your Child's Philanthropy 1.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 24, 2009

Tweetsgiving is 48-hour event to encourage people to express their gratitude using online tools and at face-to-face meet-ups. This two-day event, scheduled for November 24-26, will also invite people to donate to Epic Change. This two-day event, scheduled for November 24-26, will also invite people to donate to Epic Change.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 12, 2009

Organization(s) : The Fair & Lovely Foundation and Hindustan Unilever Limited. Objective : Increase the visibilty and utilization of the Fair & Lovely Foundation’s scholarship program among women and girls in low-income groups in rural and urban India. Organization(s) : Macmillan Cancer Support. Cool Factor : Mobile Giving.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 30, 2009

The sessions used an hour long talk show format with Case Foundation's Kari Dunn Saratovsky as the host. You'll see those below and the Case Foundation Twitter account is tweeting these tidbits today) I was a little nervous that an hour-long talking head interview might be boring.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 28, 2009

When I announced the contest, I thought there was one important book missing, Shel Israel's Twitterville. Prior to moving to California, I donated thousands of my nonprofit, technology, and social media books to nonprofit libraries through some giveaways on my blog. So I said I'd kick in my copy.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 24, 2009

Geoff Livingston invited me to keynote the conference along with Shel Israel , author of Twitterville. Jane Quigley who I first met via Chris Brogan and my fundraising campaign to send Leng Soparath to college via the Sharing Foundation 's education program. George Brett who took some great photos of conference.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2007

The money goes to the Sharing Foundation. So, it took 24 hours, 53 people donating small amounts to change a young woman's life. My goal was to ask online and offline for $10 gifts and hope that 100 people donate the $1,000 needed. which manages the program. Last year, I raised the money on my blog. But it took me three weeks.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 19, 2009

2) Spreading Person to Person Asks : This approach uses twitter and encourages people to ask their friends through Twitter to donate to a charity and spread the ask to their friends. All you had to do was click and play a word game, and that leveraged a food donation to fight hunger. For each click, 10 grains of rice is donated.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 21, 2010

I first encountered the term when I read Shel Israel's , Twitterville (pp110-111). Molson launched a campaign to replace the public funding with private sector donations, starting with its own $20K donation. The Molson Team spread the word , using Twitter to urge a wider audience to attend and donate.

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